henry d Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 If you won the Euromillions @ £10M, would you quit work immediately or work your notice and have a bit of fun at others expense ? Would you give the partner you live with 50% and tell them to sling their hook ? would you see your family alright ? Would you keep a Mill or two and set up a charitable trust ? Well what would you do ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyjaimz Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Id work for nothing, pay off my families mortgages, buy myself a house and invest most of the rest Id also buy myself a MASSIVE peice of land to shoot over with fishing rivers and lakes on it, then i'd probably need my FAC and lots of new rifles etc to go with it....... sigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briarscratch Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I guess I'd give notice and try to wrap things up with my clients as best I could, then I'd be OUTTATHERE! Next I'd hire an accountant, a tax attorney and a financial advisor.....wait a minute, who cares about all that responsible stuff. I'd shutter the house and spend the rest of the summer in Alaska, then when October came I'd buy a rambling Italianate Revival bordering a few hundred acres of overgrown pasture and beaver bogs in upstate NY or VT, and simultaneously grow my beard out while spending every decent weather day hunting ducks, grouse and woodcock. In between thicket surveying expeditions I'd figure out the bigger picture, long term plan on what to do with the money. But I'd keep my wife and kids, as long as they didn't mind traveling to uncivilized places on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Trip to Vegas and the whole lot on Black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeboy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Once the money was confirmed in the bank I would firstly book a flight to somewhere nice and hot and leave without packing a thing. I'd have a couple of months travelling about and generally living it up, maybe buy some property abroad or an island or something. Then I'd come back and buy the place I work at and sack 4/5 of the staff starting with the general manager(let them sue me !) and give the remainder a bloody good pay rise and install new management. Then I would buy a farm of my own and breed rare pigs just for the fun of it and have plenty of land to shoot over whilst I'm not travelling the world. I would then 'look after' my family and friends so they never have to work again. Then I would buy 3 pairs of the finest shotguns that money can buy for my best mate, my other shooting partner and myself. Then I would spend the rest of my life travelling the world shooting and fishing and pay for all my friends and family to join me at various points around the world, just returning home every few months. Not sure about the missus, I'm sure she would still moan about something ! If the company had treated me right I would work my notice just to make it easier for my staff but they haven't. The people that work for me are some of the best people I've ever met and most of them I would sort out so they didn't need to work. I would give some money away for research into motor neurone disease and some to 'compassion in world farming' and invest the rest. I would then spend the rest of my life doing whatever the hell I wanted to, whenever I wanted to, with whomever I wanted. This is a dream I have regularly ! No stress what so ever other than how to spend the money ! Leeboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonsey Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 grow my beard out I’d grow my beard out too……………. :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggyRS6 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Leave work. I'd prolly work my notice. 1 Mill to my Mum & Dad 1 Mill to my Sister & Hubby Buy my eldest neice a car Buy my youngest neice what ever she wanted to the same value as the car Book a holiday for those above, me my wife and my son. By a Big House in the country with land By a Villa in Barbados Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gundogpa Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I’m not sure what that is in American dollars….but it sounds like a lot. I would call in and say see ya…..I would take a little cash and help out some of my family and friends who could use a lift. I think then I would start a business, raising and training Labrador shooting dogs. Of course I would have to do a lot of traveling around to various parts of the world in order to train on different birds. September thru January would be spent chasing gamebirds throughout the whole country. As much as I love Vermont, I would keep a house here but I would also need one out west…….say in Idaho on the Camas prairie. Maybe a huge boat would also be needed, kept on a slip in the Florida keys, for those months when there is no birds to chase, MJ will want to work on her tan, that would be a good trade for my time away hunting. I’d probably try to get some box seats at Fenway park……I wonder what those would cost? Well I better get back to work……….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggyRS6 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I’m not sure what that is in American dollars….but it sounds like a lot. Double it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I'd by the new mobile phone I have been putting off buying for 7 years. Take all my mates on the shooting/fishing holiday of lifetime. Buy a reasonable, but not stupid house, probably overlooking the river Dart. Then just enjoy life even more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCanuck Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I don't remember what professional athlete said this, but when asked what he would do when he received a lucrative contract, his reply was "I'll spend most of it on booze and broads and probably waste whatever's left over." At least he admitted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkBoy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 It wouldn't change my life - I'd just buy a new lawn mower and shed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I would sack me with immediate effect and no pay. Then I would abandon the rottie and kids and do the offski to NZ taking the dogs and ferrets with me. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 i would probally have to pay at least half to the 4 extremly hard looking sons of the widow i was banging till my wife found out and gave me the option of leaving her and the wealth she was left by her parents or going off with the lovely widow who could not get enough of my clapped out but still functioning todger, (HOORAY for viagra) on reflection with due regard to my physical health and face if said sons caught up with me i, if had said millions , would ****** off with my mates wife instead!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickyard Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 A farmer was once asked the same question. His reply, "I'd just keep farming until it had all gone!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeboy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 A farmer was once asked the same question. His reply, "I'd just keep farming until it had all gone!" these days it probably wouldn't take long ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I'd be dead within 8 months ! all the best yis yp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 i would probally have to pay at least half to the 4 extremly hard looking sons of the widow i was banging till my wife found out and gave me the option of leaving her and the wealth she was left by her parents or going off with the lovely widow who could not get enough of my clapped out but still functioning todger, (HOORAY for viagra) on reflection with due regard to my physical health and face if said sons caught up with me i, if had said millions , would ****** off with my mates wife instead!!!! Blimey, busy guy! If you run out of women I've got a wife you can run off with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rabgoat Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 i would probally have to pay at least half to the 4 extremly hard looking sons of the widow i was banging till my wife found out and gave me the option of leaving her and the wealth she was left by her parents or going off with the lovely widow who could not get enough of my clapped out but still functioning todger, (HOORAY for viagra) on reflection with due regard to my physical health and face if said sons caught up with me i, if had said millions , would ****** off with my mates wife instead!!!! Blimey, busy guy! If you run out of women I've got a wife you can run off with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbjunkie Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 I don't remember what professional athlete said this, but when asked what he would do when he received a lucrative contract, his reply was "I'll spend most of it on booze and broads and probably waste whatever's left over." At least he admitted it. That one came from the late, great George Best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killer rabbit (r1000) Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 i'd (try to) invest half, clear the bills, give some to family (probably a few thou. each) to do what they like with, give a little to certain charities, buy a load of land (probably derilict & riverside, there's a fair bit 'round my way) & a) build a house for me & the missus, keep a fair amount of land as private shooting grounds & c) open some of the land as a `live experience' indoor & outdoor shooting club (with an indoor range for those who don't like blood). me & a mate have had very similar ideas for some time, we just need the money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolk shooter Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 I'd buy a nice downland country estate with good hills and woodlands and a couple of flight ponds, somehere in the region of 4-5000 acres. Then I would employ a keeper and have shooting parties right the way through the season. Out of season I'd have pigeon shooting and vermin control with the keeper. I'd also purchase and train an Eagle owl as well as other BoP and hunt from the fist as well. Oh yeah I might let the missus and kids tag along as well SS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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